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Lesson Plan Using Primary Sources to Start ELA Writing Journal/Storytelling.

Students will research members of Lincolns cabinet to better understand the process of emancipating the slaves.

Research basic information about the four presidential elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944) to complete Presidential Election - Organizing Information Chart.

Using the primary sources provided, students will work in groups to evaluate four options available to President Truman to end the war in Japan and to end the Second World War.

Using the primary sources provided, students will work in groups to evaluate six different presidential campaigns from 1952 - 2008.

The goal of this lesson is for students to take a look into past presidential propaganda and determine its similarities and differences.

Students will look at a campaign button from losing candidate Dewey in the 1948 election. They will then weigh the merits of using the slogan in a short writing assignment.

Students will analyze Thomas Nast's Sacred Elephant cartoon from 1884 and relate it to their knowledge of the Garfield/Arthur administration

This lesson will allow advanced middle school or high school students to analyze primary source documents concerning the women's rights movement in the United States to end suffrage and propose a constitutional amendment for the right to vote.

Students will debate the achievements of the Presidents.